It seems to
promote perspiration and the secretion of urine and to augment the
menstrual flow. ► It has been much vaunted as a remedy for secondary
syphilis, chronic rheumatism, etc.

Compare :- ►

Iod.,
Comocladia, etc.

Generalities :- ►

Emaciation in
men of dry constitution with hectic fever. ► Everything seems too
tight in morning on waking, and he tosses about the bed. ► General
discomfort. ► Indolence. ► Weakness, agg. thighs and upper
arms. ► Most symptoms appear when sitting, agg. morning, immediately
after rising, or in evening shortly before sleep, a few from 9 to 12 A.M.

Clinical :- ►

Arthritic diathesis. ► Chronic rheumatism. ► Secondary
syphilis. ► General tendency to emaciation. ► Stiffness and
contraction of muscles, tendons and extremities, with rheumatic
swellings of the joints. ► Aching in the bones and chronic
inflammation and degeneration of the bones, which are very sore and
cannot bear the slightest touch. ► Growing pains in children.

Mind :- ►

Fretful. ►
Morose, he speaks little. ► Contemptuous. ► Obstinate. ►
Loss of ideas at breakfast time, he stands in one place and looks in front
of him without thought. ► Memory weak.

Head :- ►

Sticking upward in
brain. ► Aching at night like a pressure upward in brain ; A.
ending in a stitch in right frontal eminence. ► Brain feels loose in
morning, and as if it moved at every step. ► Forehead, sticking in
right eminence ; tearing externally from left bone into muscles of
cheeks ; drawing T. in forepart ; pain transversely
across ; pressing in forepart ; drawing pain from middle of bone
into nasal bones. ► Temples, tearing externally in left ; pressive
pain in right as from something broad ; pressure in left, without
pain. ► Side, sticking in left at junction of parietal and temporal
bones ; drawing S. from right parietal bone into frontal eminences,
where they end in a single stitch ; drawing-tearing S. in right,
extending towards frontal bone ; tearing in whole left. ►
Occiput sticking in left ; tearing in right ; drawing-tearing in O.
and forehead. ► Headache externally as if too much blood were in
scalp and it were swollen, when sitting. ► Pulsation externally,
amel. walking, transiently amel. pressure, agg. sitting and standing, with
sticking in temples.

Clinical :- ►

Violent
rheumatic or gouty (or syphilitic) pains in bones of the head, agg. top
and left side, extending into the face, agg. night.

Eyes :- ►

►
Feeling as if swelling and protruding, the lids seem too short to cover
them (See Comocl.), with
sensation of insufficient sleep, yawning and stretching all day. ►
Pupils dilated. ► Hardened mucus in right canthi.

Ears and Nose :- ►

Tearing in
left ear ; in outer margin of left concha. ►
Aching in left ear. ► Frequent watery discharge from
nose.

Clinical :- ►

Persistent deafness, with recurring earaches.

Face :- ►

Swollen, red and
painful. ► Spasmodic drawing in muscles of right cheek in morning on
rising. ► Sticking in right cheek ; in right malar-bone.
► Sensation as if struck with a cloth in evening on falling asleep,
so that he woke in fright. ► Pain in left lower jaw ; drawing,
ending in a stitch.

Clinical :- ►

Facial
neuralgia.

Mouth and Throat :- ►

Tearing in
left upper molars. ► Pain in left upper molars on biting them
together. ► Taste flat.

Clinical :- ►

Neuralgic toothache. ► Tonsillitis.

Stomach :- ►

Violent hunger in
afternoon and evening. ► Appetite lost and nausea for everything.
► Thirst. ► Eructations ; empty.
► Constriction in region, with anxiety and difficulty in breathing.
► Frequent pressure in pit, with difficulty in breathing, oppression
and anxiety.

Abdomen :- ►

Rumbling. ►
Gurgling as from emptiness. ► Pinching cutting transversely through
A. on inspiration. ► Sticking in left hypochondrium. ►
Griping, which extends more and more downward, then emission of
flatus ; G. in left side of umbilicus ; in hypogastrium, which
constantly sinks downward and backward. ► Trembling of inner muscles
close to right ilium. ► Pain in groin as from a hernia.

Sticking in neck of bladder after urinating. ► Cutting when
urinating as if something biting passed. ►
Frequent urging to urinate ; with small discharges ;
constant desire, with profuse urine each time ; obliged to urinate
every half hour and much each time, urging immediately after micturition,
when only a few drops passed. ► Emission at night, without
lascivious dreams.

Clinical :- ►

Ovaritis in rheumatic patients, with irregular menstruation and
dysmenorrha. ► Chronic inflammation of the ovaries, with
agonizing pains, irritable bladder.

Respiratory Organs and Chest :- ►

Spasmodic inflammatory affections of trachea, agg. larynx, with
palpitation that threatened suffocation. ► Mucous expectoration on
hacking and hawking. ► Sticking from larynx to left clavicle ;
S. beneath left true ribs, agg. towards back ; from centre of right
chest to beneath right scapula, agg. inspiration. ► Sudden stuffed
sensation in chest, in præcordial region, even at night in sleep, like
arrest of breath, causing frequent dry cough until there is sore
expectoration.

Clinical :- ►

Pleuritic pains in apex of lungs, especially in consumption. ► In
consumption it relieves the extremely offensive expectoration (Compare Cap.).

Neck and Back :- ►

Pain on sides
of cervical vertebræ ; P. extending from left side of neck to vertex
and ending in a stitch. ► Rheumatic
stiffness in left side of back from nape to sacrum, with pain in slightest
motion. ► Drawing down right side of spine from axilla to
lowest ribs, with tearing. ► Scapulæ,
sticking extending along left side of nape to occiput ;
sticking tearing on posterior margin of right ; sticking tearing on
margins, then constriction in dorsal muscles ; constriction between
S.

Clinical :- ►

Muscular pain and stiffness in the back.

Upper Extremities :- ►

Stretching, with yawning. ► Frequent sticking on top of right
shoulder ; S. in right upper arm, agg. middle. ► Drawing
tearing in left upper arm, extending to finger, agg. wrist. ► Upper
arm weak as after hard labor. ► Frequent drawing-tearing sticking
from left elbow to wrist. ► Tearing in right forearm, extending into
wrist ; T. in left wrist ; drawing T. in left wrist. ►
Sticking in right thumb.

Lower Extremities :- ►

Sticking
in nates when walking, agg. sitting, as if she sat on needles. ►
Thigh, stickings above right knee ; S. above left knee, which meet on
both sides ; jerking tearing from middle of right to knee ;
drawing tearing from middle of left to knee ; growing pain in
right ; bruised pain in left on walking in open air ; crawling
pain from middle of right femur to knee when sitting still ; drawing
it up and bending it ; tension, agg. right, as if muscles were too
short, when walking, agg. touch, amel. sitting, with weakness. ►
Drawing pain in knee, which ends in a stitch. ► Tearing sticking
from middle of left tibia to toes ; between tibia and fibula,
extending to patella ; tearing-drawing S. from middle of right tibia
to knee. ► Jerking stitches in outer side of calf. ► Painless
constriction in right calf. ► Leg seems bruised after walking,
feeling as if brittle. ► Weariness of legs, agg. thighs. ►
Sticking in right ankle when sitting ; drawing S. from right ankle to
middle of tibia. ► Tearing long-drawn stitches from right tarsus to
knee. ► Pain in a spot on back of right foot, ending in sticking,
amel. motion.

Skin :- ►

Sore, painful pimple on
nose ; hard P., with white tip, sore on touch, on right eyebrow.
► Grumbling on white leg, with heat in it. ► Crawling in
chest ; in thighs and legs, extending to toes, when sitting, as if
they would go to sleep. ► Itching stitches like flea-bites on thigh,
agg. sides of knee-cap, amel. scratching. ► Burning itching, agg.
scratching ; corrosive I. on back during day.

Sleep :- ►

Yawning all day, with
stretching and sensation of insufficient sleep ; Y., with stretching
and comfort. ► Sleepiness in afternoon. ► Sleepless two hours
in evening, and tossing about the bed. ► Late falling asleep in
evening and early waking in morning. ► Frequent waking as from
fright or as if falling. ► Unrefreshed in morning on waking. ►
Sleep full of dreams. ► Dream of that she was pierced by knives.
► D. of fights. ► Vivid D. of scientific subjects. ►
Nightmare when lying on back, and waking with cries.

Fever :- ►

Chilliness ; in
forenoon and in evening before sleep, sweat in morning ; internal
general, in evening, then heat, agg. face, without thirst ; in back
in afternoon. ► Shivering in back ; in breasts. ► Heat of
face, with thirst, without redness or sweat. ► Sweat every
morning ; S. on walking in open air, agg. head, pearly S. on
forehead ; profuse S. on back at night.